- male, deceased (1493)
- Sheikh Ahmed Zarruq (1442-1493) was a Shadhili Sufi Sheikh and founder of the Zarruqiyye branch of the Shadhili Sufi order (Tariqa). He was born on...
- male
- Dunash ibn Tamim was a Jewish tenth century scholar, and a pioneer of scientific study among Arabic-speaking Jews. His Arabic name was أبو سهل...
- male, deceased (1622)
- Isaac ben Abraham Uziel (Hebrew: יצחק בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Spanish physician and poet born at Fez. At one time he held the position of rabb...
- male, deceased (1823)
- Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (1760-1823) was a Moroccan Sufi reformer and "Da'ee". He stressed noninvolvement in wordly affairs...
- male, deceased (1572)
- Issachar ben Mordecai ibn Susan (Hebrew: יששכר בן מרדכי אבן שושן) was a Jewish mathematician, living in Palestine. In early youth he removed fr...
- male, deceased (1034)
- Samuel ben Hofni was the last gaon of Sura. His father was a Talmudic scholar and chief judge ("ab bet din," probably of Fez), one of whose...
- male, deceased (1632)
- Abu-l-'Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed-ul-Maqqari, or Al-Maḳḳari, was an Arabian historian. He was born at Tlemcen in Algeria and studied at Fez and Marr...
- male, 339 years old
- Mohammed el Ifrani (1670-1747) was a Moroccan historian. Little is known about the life of Muhammad al-Saghir b. al-hajj Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah...
- female
- Siham Benchekroun is a Moroccan novelist and poet. She was born in Fes, Morocco and studied medicine at the University of Casablanca. When she had...
- male, deceased (1674)
- Jacob Hagis (or Hagiz was a Palestinian Talmudist born of a Spanish family at Fez. Ḥagiz's teacher was David Karigal ("Ḳorban Minḥah," No. 105),...
| |
